CHAPTER 2

Alternative Ways
in Assessing
Learning
   Design appropriate performance
assessment tools for intended student
learning outcomes;
Specific   Develop an assessment tool to
Objectives measure affective outcomes of learning;
  Develop a plan in assessing students’
learning using portfolio assessment.
  Describe performance assessments;
 Answer the following questions in preparation
for the expected outcomes:
 Why now, and why in higher education?
 Why do we use performance assessment?
TASKS  How do performance assessments work?
 What do we need to make performance
assessment successful
 Performance assessment is a
summative assessment tool …;
focus more on practical or
What is a
performance applied skills—
assessment?
“authentic assessment” or
“performance-based
assessment.”
  “a test in which the test taker
actually demonstrates the skills the
PERFORMAN test is intended to measure by doing
CE real-world tasks;
ASSESSMEN
 an approach to teaching and
T
learning that values application
over rote memorization.
  Why now, and why in higher
education?
 Why do we use performance
assessment?
Performance
assessment  How do performance assessments
work?
 What do we need to make
performance assessment successful
Why now, and
why in higher  outdated in K–12 contexts

education?  A new Quality Performance Assessment scheme is underway

 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT LOOKS AT
HIGHER-ORDER THINKING SKILLS AND
PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITIES.

Why use
performance
assessment?
 measure whether students can
apply the knowledge appropriately
in various contexts.
  

Performance
assessments
 ALLOW STUDENTS TO MONITOR
THEMSELVES

performance
assessments
  makes “teaching to the test” a
positive teaching and learning
strategy.

performance
assessments
  go hand-in-hand with modern teaching strategies like active
learning and critical thinking.

Performance
assessments
  The educator sets a task…
 Students must demonstrate competencies in production,
communication and applying their content knowledge.

How do
performance
assessments
work?
  students develop how they
approach their tasks while
understanding the standards to
The key to which they will be evaluated.
performance
assessment
 Templates and scoring
rubrics
What are needed to
make performance
assessment
successful?
  Examples/benchmarks

What are needed to

make performance
assessment
successful?
  Help your students prepare and practice

What are needed to

make performance
assessment
successful?
 Leverage your community
 “Your old grade book
is a waste of space and
time. Don't hesitate;
just throw it Out.”
― Starr Sackstein
“Your old grade book is a waste of
space and time. Don't hesitate; just
throw it Out.”
― Starr Sackstein

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